Title

Review of Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community. Coggeshall, John M.. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 296 pp.

Authors

J. Hope Amason, Central Washington UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Department or Administrative Unit

Anthropology and Museum Studies

Publication Date

8-12-2019

Abstract

Liberia, South Carolina is at once an ethnographic and a historical account of an African American Appalachian community and the land its residents call home. African American experiences are underrepresented within Appalachian studies, so the book widens our understanding of Appalachia—a region that, especially in the public imagination, is associated with whiteness—and also has the potential to expand the spatialization of blackness in the United States.

Comments

This article was originally published in American Ethnologist. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

Due to copyright restrictions, this article is not available for free download from ScholarWorks @ CWU.

Recommended Citation

Amason, J. H. (2019). [Review of the book Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community, by J.M. Coggeshall]. American Ethnologist 6(3), 354-355. https://www.doi.org/10.1111/amet.12809

Journal

American Ethnologist

Rights

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